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Public university in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, U. S.

The area that makes up the campus of Lake Superior State University served as Fort Brady from 1894 to 1944; it is listed as "New Fort Brady" on the National Register of Historic Places, as the earlier incarnation of the fort was downhill. Lake Superior State University was established in 1946 to address the needs of returning World War II veterans and to provide educational opportunities to the people of the Eastern Upper Peninsula. The campus includes several buildings which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The institution was originally a branch of Michigan College of Mining & Technology, which is now known as Michigan Technological University. It opened in 1946 as the Sault Ste. Marie Residence Center of the Michigan College of Mining & Technology, which was commonly shortened to Soo Tech. The original class consisted of 272 students. The institution was later renamed Lake Superior State College of Michigan Technological University in 1966. The college received autonomy from Michigan Tech in 1970 and was known as Lake Superior State College until 1987, when the institution was granted university status. The institution's college radio station is WLSO, and its student newspaper is The Compass.

+ Fall First Time Freshman Statistics 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Applicants 2,309 1,709 1,657 2,846 1,180 1,457 Admits 1,680 1,180 941 1,785 661 1,320 Admit rate 72.8 69.0 56.8 62.7 56.0 90.6 Enrolled 324 303 296 338 294 379 Yield rate 19.3 25.7 31.5 18.9 44.4 28.7 ACT composite*(out of 36) 19 27 18 26 18 23 20 26 19 26 20 25 SAT composite*(out of 1600) 963 1178 950 1170 970 1160 990 1200 990 1180 * middle 50% range

LSSU is considered "selective" by U. S. News & World Report. For the Class of 2025 (enrolling Fall 2021), LSSU received 2,309 applications and accepted 1,680 (72.8%), with 324 enrolling. The middle 50% range of SAT scores for enrolling freshmen was 963 1178. The middle 50% ACT composite score range was 19 27.

CFRE Aquatic Research LaboratoryThe LSSU CFRE ARL is an off campus research and educational facility in the east end of the Cloverland Electric Coop hydroelectric plant. The ARL houses the University's fish hatchery, and conducts research on fisheries and aquatic ecology in the region. Since 1984 the Aquatic Research Laboratory has released 40,000 Atlantic salmon into the St. Mary's River. Superior Analytics LaboratoryThe SAL is housed in the chemistry department at LSSU, and provides analytical services to LSSU researchers, government agencies, businesses, and private citizens. The SAL routinely conducts standard environmental testing, as well as trace level analysis of environmental contaminants such as pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, metals, and cyanotoxins. Revenues from the SAL assist the Chemistry Department in purchasing and maintaining state of the art analytical instrumentation, and provide students with employment opportunities and experience working in a professional lab. Cannabis Center of Excellence & Lion Labs InstituteThe Cannabis Center of Excellence, sponsored by Agilent Technologies, opened in 2019. As northern Michigan's leading center for mass spectrometry and chemical analysis, the CCE supports faculty and student research, and the undergraduate programs in Biology, Biochemistry, Cannabis Chemistry, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Forensic Chemistry, and Geology. The Lion Labs Institute conducts research and education on the extraction and purification of natural products, and contains facilities for hydrocarbon extraction, ethanol extraction, and distillation/purification. Environmental Molecular Biology LabThe Environmental Molecular Biology Lab is a multi investigator research facility specializing in the application of cutting edge molecular & genetic techniques to the study of human disease through wastewater epidemiology, zoonotic diseases, and wildlife disease. Instrumentation includes ddPCR, qPCR, and nanopore long read genetic sequencing. Robotics LabThe LSSU Robotics Lab is a multimillion dollar facility dedicated to student instruction in robotics and automation technology. Robotic workcells use FANUC, Stäubli, and Kuka industrial robots. Micro Analysis & Spectroscopic Characterization (MASC) LabThe MASC Lab is a regional research facility dedicated to the characterization of biologic, geologic, and engineered material as well as forensic trace evidence and environmental contaminants. Established in 2023 with funding from the National Science Foundation, MASC Lab core instrumentation includes a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and a micro X Ray Fluorescence spectrometer (υXRF). Additional instrumentation includes a quantum cascade laser infrared chemical imaging system, fluorescence microscopy, and polarized light microscopy. Simulation CenterIn the fall of 2018, through a collaboration with a community member of interest, the Lake Superior State University/War Memorial Hospital (LSSU/WMH) Simulation Center was created as a partnership and allowed the Simulation Center to be moved to an on campus location. This center is housed in a newly renovated space in the Arts Center Building. With a little more than 4,000 sq. feet, the simulation center provides a wide range of simulated experiences for students using high fidelity male, female, pediatric, and infant simulators. There are three designated patient care areas each with their own control and debriefing rooms. Each patient room consists of working infusion pumps, headwall units, patient monitors, and simulated electronic health records. There is a spacious medication/supply area with a simulated medication dispensing unit. Because the simulation center provides learning experiences as part of the paramedic program, a simulated ambulance was purchased during the fall 2018 semester, which provides for an increased ability to coordinate and run Interprofessional simulation experiences.

Lake Superior State University has a variety of traditions. Banished Words List: Each new year brings another installment of the school's “List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis Use, Over Use and General Uselessness”. It has been published since New Year's Day 1976 and receives significant media coverage. Word watchers pull nominations throughout the year from everyday speech, as well as from the news, fields of education, technology, advertising, politics, and more. A committee gathers the entries and chooses the best in December. The list is released on New Year's Day. Hoholik Victory Bell: The bell, outside the Norris Center and Taffy Abel Arena, is rung after each home victory. Fans gather around the bell as members of the hockey team make their way outside in the cold temperatures to ring the bell. This tradition was started after the bell was hung in the early 1980s. The original bell was replaced in 1992 after extensive damage from the 1992 NCAA Championship celebration. Ship's Horn: An authentic ship's horn is within the Taffy Abel Arena, where the Lakers play home hockey games. The horn is mounted high on the wall behind the goal a visiting team defends for two periods. The powerful horn, operated on compressed air, blasts after each Laker goal and at the end of each home game. Snowmobile Race: The city of Sault Ste. Marie puts on the annual I 500 snowmobile race held at a one mile (1.6 km) oval behind the Norris Center on the campus of Lake State. The event draws a big crowd and is held the first Saturday of February. The Unicorn Hunters'' established the banished words list and snowman burning. They also put on stone skipping tournaments and started a literary magazine. As their name suggests, they also searched for unicorns. Once an ABC News crew found their way to the campus and filmed students "questing for unicorns." "The Quest, of course, is the pursuit of the unicorn, and the unicorn is one's personal vision of perfection or happiness (McWhirter)."

The school's official nickname is the Lakers, but in some instances the athletic teams are called the Soo Lakers in reference to the institution's hometown. Prior to becoming known as the Lakers, sports teams were known as the Hornets. The most prominent sport at LSSU is men's ice hockey, which is the school's only NCAA Division I program. The men's ice hockey team is a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, being one of seven teams that left the Western Collegiate Hockey Association after the 2020–21 season to reestablish the CCHA. Other sports at LSSU play at a Division II level in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, of which LSSU is a charter member. At $1284 per student, in 2015 the student subsidy for athletics at LSSU was the highest among all Michigan's public universities (this compares to $14 at MSU and $6 at U M). (24)